June 2005
Doc Searls is right, Google is a Windows company
Posted by on Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Acts of Volition Radio in iTunes (thanks Matt!)
Posted by on Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Iraq: The Musical
Posted by on Friday, June 24, 2005 in - 3 comments
Inspired by Dick Cheney’s youthful enthusiasm about the “war” in Iraq, I’ve written a brief synopsis for a musical about Iraq. • Act 1: Liberation • Heavy on trumpets, flags, and narrated by a plucky young “embedded” reporter in a khaki reporter vest. • “ • Reporter: “Back to you …
The Onion from the future (2056) has the stench of truth... (warning: lots of annoying flash)
Posted by on Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Posted by on Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Amazing graph of software packages and relationships (aka "dependencies") in Fedora Linux
Posted by on Tuesday, June 21, 2005
The Catch-22 of Open Format Adoption, Part 3: Office Documents
Posted by on Sunday, June 19, 2005 in - 12 comments
Having looked at music formats and instant messaging protocols, this final installment of a short series on open formats covers what may be the most ubiquitous of digital file formats: office documents. Spreadsheets, presentations, desktop databases, and the common text document hold most of the …
Free and Open Source Software at silverorange
Posted by on Thursday, June 16, 2005 in
I’ve written a short article about how we use free and open source software at silverorange, the web development firm where I work. • “ • Over the past few years at silverorange we have become more interested in and more aware of free and open source software. The interest started on the …
"The Hinterweb": [most people] live in shanty-town of of X10 pop-ups and porn adware, and endless, endless Hotmail and Yahoo spam - yup, my Mom & Dad live there
Posted by on Tuesday, June 14, 2005
The new episode of the Systm free downloadable tech show highlights the free/open-source Tivo alternative MythTV (and it's available in a free/open-source video format - Theora)
Posted by on Friday, June 10, 2005
Location sensitive reminders - I've been asking for this for years
Posted by on Thursday, June 9, 2005
The Catch-22 of Open Format Adoption, Part 2: Instant Messaging
Posted by on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 in - 8 comments
I wrote last week about the catch-22 of open audio formats. Online music isn’t the only domain in which open formats are emerging, nor is it the most significant. The world of instant messaging (IM) is another case where open protocols have emerged to compete with their proprietary predecessors …
I really like the cover art on the new Foo Fighters album
Posted by on Monday, June 6, 2005
The Catch-22 of Open Format Adoption, Part 1: Music
Posted by on Sunday, June 5, 2005 in - 31 comments
We’re all familiar with the MP3 file format. As far as most people are concerned, the format implies free music. The software required to play MP3 files is usually free as well. That said, neither of these things necessarily follow from use of the MP3 format. • What most people don’t realize is …